NVIDIA Driver 595.71.05 Container Image

Description

The NVIDIA Driver container image provides NVIDIA GPU drivers in a containerized environment. This image is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and includes both the open-source and proprietary NVIDIA kernel modules 595.71.05, along with the necessary user-space tools.

It provides precompiled binaries for the NVIDIA GPU Operator or for manual driver deployment on container hosts, allowing for faster deployment.

Usage

To deploy this container image, use the NVIDIA GPU Operator Helm chart version 26.3.1 or later, following these steps.

Add the arguments --set driver.repository=registry.suse.com/third-party/nvidia, --set driver.usePrecompiled=true, and --set driver.version=<driver-branch> to the helm install command. Replace <driver-branch> with the major version of the GPU driver (such as 595, 590, or 580).

For k3s or RKE2, add --set toolkit.env[0].name=CONTAINERD_SOCKET --set toolkit.env[0].value=/run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock when Node Resource Interface (NRI) plugin is not enabled.

Example:

helm repo add nvidia https://helm.ngc.nvidia.com/nvidia \
    && helm repo update
helm install --wait gpu-operator \
     -n gpu-operator --create-namespace \
     nvidia/gpu-operator \
     --version=v26.3.1 \
     --set driver.repository=registry.suse.com/third-party/nvidia \
     --set driver.usePrecompiled=true \
     --set driver.version=<driver-branch> \
     --set toolkit.env[0].name=CONTAINERD_SOCKET \
     --set toolkit.env[0].value=/run/k3s/containerd/containerd.sock

Secure Boot is only supported on SLES 16.x / SL Micro 6.2 / SLES 15 SP7 host and requires NVIDIA open driver. Add --set driver.kernelModuleType=open argument to the helm install command.

This driver container image requires the full kernel-default or kernel-default-64kb RPM package to be installed on the host. Using the kernel-default-base RPM package is not supported, and will cause the driver container to fail to initialize properly.

Licensing

SPDX-License-Identifier: NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE

This documentation and the build recipe are licensed as NVIDIA DEEP LEARNING CONTAINER LICENSE. The container itself contains various software components under various open source licenses listed in the associated Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).

This image is based on SUSE Linux BCI, a stable and redistributable foundation for software innovation. SUSE Linux BCI is enterprise-ready, and it comes with an option for support.

See the SUSE Linux BCI EULA for further information.